Kengo Kuma: Complete Works: Expanded Edition (Expanded Edition)

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The comprehensive monograph―now expanded―on one in every of Japan’s most necessary living architects

Since establishing his practice in 1990, Kengo Kuma has brought latest vigor to Japan’s already wealthy brand new architectural heritage and developed projects far beyond his native country. Influenced by a period at Columbia University in New York and by the lessons of his mentor, Hiroshi Hara, Kuma has forged his own pared-back language: responsive to local nature and traditional construction, entirely latest in its execution, yet rooted in a Japanese sensibility.

The experience of his buildings is hypnotic and highly sensory. Much of this powerful effect is achieved by Kuma’s deft, once in a while dramatic, use of materials. Projects prior to now five years by myself include two museums in France, landscape projects in Italy, hotels and large- scale retail and commercial projects in China, and a large number of projects in Japan, including a kindergarten.

Published to coincide with the opening of Kuma’s new Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee, Scotland, with the architect’s direct involvement, this volume, expanded to include five new projects, offers unparalleled insight into the mind of probably the most great architects of the twenty-first century.

420 illustrations, 240 in color

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